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| Hold the presses! It's 1992 again! |
No- it isn't an e-bike.
No- it isn't a vacuum cleaner. (Although it could Hoover all the money out of your wallet in January when it becomes available.)
No- It isn't a 1992 Park-Pre hard tail. (Although it looks like it could be from that era.)
Nope- it is the ubiquitous slack, long, and short rear ended steel hard tail that everybody and their brother is making now. Welcome to the sheep show, All City. Get to know the dozen or so like minded designers and their bikes out there.
I will say that the fade paint with splatter is dead on early 90's though. All City nailed that one. Nicely done chaps!
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| Salsas does kids bikes.....again. |
Back in the day, (as they say), Ross Shafer of Salsa Cycles, who started the brand, made a serious 24" wheeled kids bike. It flopped because it cost what an adult's bike cost, and ya know......kids grow like weeds. Get them a bike that fits today and two years from now they look like a circus bear on a bike. Parents don't like making high dollar short term recreational investments. At least not in this market which I am intimately familiar with in this Mid-Western town.
That's why I am not jumping for joy about $500.00 plus kid's bikes from Salsa Cycles. I mean, yeah.......for a few folks, this is rad. But for most parents I see coming in, this is going to be a non-starter. $250.00 Trek kids bikes are one thing, doubling the money? Yeah......I don't think that's going to fly here.
Maybe where you live it will. I don't know.
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| Velocity does now indeed have fat bike wheels. |
If you are a regular reader of the blog you know that a while back I came across some Velocity fat bike hubs on an online retailer's site. There had been no word from Velocity about that and I found that really odd. Plus, I wondered if Velocity would be partnering with someone to do full wheel builds.
Well, Friday Velocity announced that it will be selling wheels and hubs for fat bikes now. Huzzah!
The rim company they partnered with is HED and they are offering the carbon and aluminum rims in a Comp and Pro build along with just hubs if you want them. Head over to Velocity USA for all the details.
I may have to see if I can lighten up my Blackborow a bit with a set of these wheels and tubeless tires.
2 comments:
I had one of those 1992 Park-Pre bikes. The "Hammer" model. White with day-glo green chainstays and blue splatter paint.
I'm glad to see some colorful paint jobs. All-City does have some nice paint jobs in my opinion.
I'll warn you that the HED BAD rims are "delicate". I'm 140lbs and dented a front rim on a rather innocuous hit. It wasn't a JRA, but it wasn't a super hard hit either. I was able to bend it back with some pliers, tough love and a rubber mallet. So far it is holding air for over 7 months and lots of tough rides. I do tend to put a bit more PSI in the front than I would like though.
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